You Just Never Know

For Wilshire Baptist Church

You just never know who you’re going to run into. After dinner with my mother on Friday, we dropped into her neighborhood Braum’s for ice cream. We were sitting in a booth when her eyes locked on someone across the room. A moment later, a man stepped up and then his wife followed and confirmed what she had thought: It was Khanh and Hop.

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Cloudy Bright Days

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Helping my mother look through some boxes in my father’s end of their bedroom closet, I pulled the lid off a box and found Dad’s 35mm Kodak Pony IV camera. It’s the only camera I ever saw him use, and it was my introduction to real photography and one of life’s great lessons.

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One Piece at a Time

For Wilshire Baptist Church

After taking a long break we’re back at the jigsaw puzzle table. During the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic we completed approximately 40 puzzles, but we stopped for several months when the masks came off and life got busy again. I’m not sure what got us back to puzzling, except perhaps the extreme heat of this summer has created its own pandemic-like response and we aren’t getting out much. 

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